The National Security State Has Already Won in U.S. Versus Assange

A British court is currently deliberating in what is probably the last appeal by Julian Assange in the U.S. government’s efforts to extradite him to stand trial in the United States for illegally disclosing war crimes committed by the U.S. national-security state. If Assange loses this appeal, it is a virtual certainty that he will be quickly loaded onto a plane and shipped to the United States, where U.S. prosecutors will seek a conviction and a very long jail sentence in a high-security federa...